Getting rid of 9.1 |
September, 28, 2003 1:50 AM |
dbrimm |
Configuration: 7300 running 9.1, 9.2(Classic), and 10.2.5 NewerTech 400mhz G3 CPU card 384MB RAM 2 internal SCSI IBM (Apple ROM) hard drives 4 gig with OS 9.1 and stuffed with old aps and junk 9 gig partitioned at 4 gigs (OS Xx), 1 gig (swap), 4 gigs OS 9.2 (Classic) and stuff. PCI=Radeon 7000, Western Digital Firewire 400, Western Digital USB 1 Caveat: This system works flawlessly. Camcorder, camera, OS 10.2.5 works great, Classic works fine and even cold boot into 9.1 (non classic) works fine but unsure how, if at all, XPostFacto is involved. Problem: I need the 4 gig drive (old 9.1) for other adventures. Can I reformat it (saving the good stuff to CD of course) and still be able to run OS Xx and Classic as I am doing now? What about the L2 cache configuration sitting on the 9.1 desktop. I have since copied it to the Classic 9.2 desktop but will L2 cache still work on boot up in Ten? (Believe me, L2 cache activation is mandatory.) Panther, will it require XPostFacto on an old original 9.x system to install like 10.1 did? By the way, after I was running 10.1, upgrading to 10.2 Jaguar went without a hitch. I don't think XPostFacto was even involved. I don't want to get into a situation where if I delete old 9.1 (non classic) and can never get back to 10.x if a problem rears it's ugly head. So far no problems at all, I want to keep it that way. Any input will be appreciated. Deano |
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RE: Getting rid of 9.1 |
September, 29, 2003 12:30 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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Actually, on my 8500 which I have set up running OSX server 10.1.5, I do not have any mac OS other then OSX. If I need to reboot it to OS9 I use a CD... Works great and the only problems I have had over the last 2+ years are hardware problems as my SCSI drives slowy decay... Even the above hasn't been bad. When I hear the server is retrying repeatedly (ie disk errors), I reboot from the OS9 CD and run one of the many fine disk utils I have purchased over my life of mac usage. FWB2.5 is particulary good at testing/ reallocating bad blocks. Then I run diskwarrior to repair the directory structure, and then I run XPF to restart the server. XPF does complain when it is run from a system started from a CD, but it works. Marty |
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RE: Getting rid of 9.1 |
September, 28, 2003 7:27 AM |
jonck |
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Hi Deano, You're always going to need a system 9 somewhere that you can boot back to, in case something goes wrong with OS X. If for some reason something goes wrong with OS X and you don't have an OS 9 to boot back to, you're never going to be able to start OS X again, since for that you need XPF on our machines. However, that doesn't mean that you need two OS 9's installed, like you do at this time. I use OS 9.2.2 to boot into 9 as well as for the classic environment. You will need OS 9 helper to make 9.2.2 bootable for your machine. After that you can ditch 9.1 and use 9.2.2 for booting into 9 and for classic environment. HTH, Jonck |
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